Local Tours (2)

Craft Activities

There are many activities that can be easily learnt in a short time, or perhaps you just want to watch a craft person at work. If you want to try your hand at the activities we can teach you, alternatively we can introduce you to our local craftspeople who can demonstrate these village crafts;

Basket making

Soap making

Mud brick making

Weaving

Spindle spinning

Traditional broom tying

Please contact us for more information before you come so we can advise on availability.

Traditional Cooking

Visitors can learn by participating in making traditional Cypriot foods and dishes.From sweets and cakes to makingstuffed vine leaves, if the ingredients are available we can show you how to make it. Some of the common recipes include:

Breads (coated in sesame, nigella seeds and fennel seeds or filled with hellim and seasonal vegetables)

Sucuk (strings of almonds dipped in thickened grape juice)

Tailor Made Tours

Special tours can be organized relating to cooking or crafts, these can be individually designed to meet your needs.Our most popular tour includes cheese and bread making demonstrations performed in an interactive setting. You can get involved in shaping sesame covered loaves or firing the outdoor village oven and, of course, tasting the cheese and eating the breads that you make!

Our most popular tour includes cheese and bread making demonstrations performed in an interactive setting. You can get involved in shaping sesame covered loaves or firing the outdoor village oven and, of course, tasting the cheese and eating the breads that you make!

This 3 - 4 hour long tour is also available for groups and includes a full vegetarian lunch of local Cypriot cuisine at the local (Kemeraltı) restaurant or a picnic served under the spreading branches of our mulberry tree. It also includes a short walking tour around the village. Ideal for a group of friends, an office outing (team bonding) or for travel agents looking for meaningful eco-activities for their clients.

Costs

Everybody has a budget and we have a wide range of prices to suit everybody. For example, the cost of the bread and cheese activity tour with lunch at the restaurant mentioned above (until end of 2017) is 22 euro/ per person (for a min 10 and max 25 people).

Alternatively, come along to the Sunday Markets (open only between October and May) for five euros each you can have a piece of dough to shape and put in the oven; when it is cooked it is yours!

(call before hand to be sure on +90 392 383 2038).

Many different activities can be organized! Just contact us and we will help you find an activity at a price that suits. We welcome all, from young people to seniors. Prices can start as low as €5 and many rural activities like olive picking, goat or sheep milking, broom making or other traditional activities can be organized, depending on the season.

Our aim is to help save traditional Cypriot village life as part of the cultural heritage of this island.

Let us be your introduction to the treasure that is rural Cyprus, we are waiting for you here in Büyükkonuk the gateway to the Karpaz.